Leveraging the power of Building Information Modeling (BIM), CTC Software’s Suites for Autodesk® Revit® embrace dynamic add-ins that bolster the three goals announced by Autodesk for its integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI): (1) Analysis; (2) Augmentation; and (3) Automation.
BIM, like AI, uses machine learning, which underlies predictive analysis, augments Revit’s existing capabilities, and automates repetitive actions. In concert with AI and cloud competency, CTC Software’s BIM suites connect the professionals involved in architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) projects through efficient storage and shareability of Revit data.
Analyzing the Future: Predictions and Comparisons with AI and CTC Software
BIM’s marriage with Computer-Aided Design (CAD) produced Revit, which facilitated communication among stakeholders in AEC projects. For instance, BIM enables engineers to analyze whether architects’ Revit models are compatible with designated terrain. AI takes these types of analyses to the next level, as is the case with Autodesk Forma®, a cloud-based program that can be linked to Revit.
Forma is valuable AI software for schematic design. Architects can employ Forma at their initial planning stage to contextualize Revit blueprints by placing them within the geolocations where they will be constructed. Forma lets architects visualize and compare designs for practicality, sustainability, and cost.
CTC Software’s BIM Project Suite™ contains Revit Add ins that t and are compatible with AI software to analyze models within a digital environment so that AEC project contributors can tweak architectural designs in light of real-world circumstances. One such tool is the BIM Project Suite’s Occupant Flow Analyzer™. This intelligent add-in automatically scrutinizes emergency exit paths in a Revit prototype to ensure these pathways abide by local ordinance rules.
Augmenting Revit’s Potential: AI Plus CTC Software Add-Ins
Autodesk has cited Generative Design within Revit as an AI-made augmentation feature. In this context, augmentation refers to AI software that extends and encourages swift experimentation. Generative Design certainly meets this objective, as its genetic algorithm–a function of AI–combs through competing variables to give Revit® users clear direction for practical models.
Still, CTC Software’s BIM Suites Revit add ins are fundamentally compilations of augmentation devices. CTC Software’s Revit add-ins augment Revit with Generative Design and other Autodesk AI innovations to broaden design solutions.
Automating Revit Design: Saving Costs with AI and CTC Software Add-Ins
AI has been hailed for its ability to automate tasks that once took people hours or even months to complete. Autodesk Dynamo® provides one example of how AI is being implemented to automate design actions in Revit so projects can be finished in less time.
Dynamo grants visual logic options to Revit users through a combination of BIM, AI, and cloud technology. Visual logic is a programming language predicated on intuitive, pictorial representations rather than traditional coding, thereby empowering designers without formal computer programming training to draft changes to code within Revit.
By incorporating Predictive Scripting, a Dynamo faculty, into Revit, users not only have the capacity to revise models more rapidly and autonomously using visual logic but also have scripts generated automatically. This AI convenience is similar to language triggered in Gmail drafting, where text is spontaneously suggested and can be adapted by the email writer.
Add-ins offered by CTC Software’s BIM Suites overwhelmingly target automation as the panacea for costly and tedious labor within the Revit platform. The BIM Project Suite’s Schedule XL™ is one such extension, permitting automation of schedule updates upon opening Revit projects when original spreadsheets are changed. Likewise, CTC Software’s BIM Batch Suite™, BIM Manager Suite™, and BIM Data Suite™ all furnish Revit add-ins that automate cumbersome aspects of Revit design.
CTC Software’s BIM Suites Work with AI to Complete the Future of Design
In the past, AEC projects suffered from the classic ivory-tower problem when the architect had an idea that was isolated in a CAD system. Today, AI and BIM promote feedback from engineers, construction managers, and intelligent algorithms, which guide analyses of Revit models, augment Revit users’ choices while designing, and automate burdensome design labor.
CTC Software has always been on the cutting edge of enhancing Revit for greater control, exploration, and ease in the design experience. Joining forces with AI, our range of Revit add-ins creates a future for design that limits expenses and expands imagination. Contact our team to learn more.
